I think Chris Shaw should do a gig one night at Yuk Yuk's comedy club. I mean I almost fell out of my chair laughing when I read this stuff and it bears worth repeating:
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I'm a scientist. I can do the math... It's $7 billion so far - that we know about. The environment has suffered - with over 100,000 tress cut down.
There will be 15,000 soldiers on our streets next year with massive surveillance programs already under way. There will be cameras on every street corner with face recognition software and voice recognition software for the phone lines. We are facing a freaking nightmare for civil rights.
Three hundred million dollars more were dumped into an ill-considered subway line that may have been influential for the bid but was not a solution for local transportation.
The city ... found itself facing a nearly $2 billion dollar Olympic debt. ... brought Vancouver to the brink of bankruptcy.
The overall cost to all levels of government for the 2010 Games will likely come out at about $10 billion.
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Methinks Chris Shaw is maneuvering to become the future deputy Minister of Finance in a Carole James government.
